Re: Autoconf & grep 2.4.2

[Akim Demaille]

| I'm trying to rebuild the configure script for grep 2.4.2, but autoconf 
| fails for some reason.
| 
| How do I tell what is wrong?

Probably nothing wrong.  It seems to me that the Grep 2.4.2 that you
fetched, is broken.  Unless you run HP/UX.

| 
| I did run aclocal and automake before hand but it doesn't make any 
| difference. 

Just don't.

| 
| 
| Here's a log of some of the msgs, but it means nothing to me:-
| 
| configure.in:11: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
| configure.in:11: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
| configure.in:11: with aclocal and run automake again.
| aclocal.m4:471: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
| autoconf/oldnames.m4:113: AM_PROG_INSTALL is expanded from...
| aclocal.m4:471: the top level
| WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
| WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
| WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
| 
| WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
| WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
| WARNING: `acconfig.h':
| 
| WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
| WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
| 
| WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
| WARNING: documentation.
| aclocal.m4:471: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
| autoconf/oldnames.m4:113: AM_PROG_INSTALL is expanded from...
| aclocal.m4:471: the top level
| autoheader: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
|  at c:/usr/local/bin/autoheader line 163

Start again from a fresh tarball, say 2.5.